Joel Kinnaman

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Wow! I just watched the first 3 episodes and I have to admit I was skeptical because I'm not a big sci-fi fan but this got me intrigued because it's not too out there and more realistic.
Apart from the amazing cinematography and the great choice in music I was never happier for this series to have a female showrunner because it gives us lots of topless Joel. I couldn't be more grateful. And whoever decided to give Joel this haircut is a genius. Well done, sir or madam!
I don't know how it ends and I forgot if it was planned as a mini series but I hope it gets a second season. Potentially with Charlie Hunnam as another sleeve fighting naked with Joel for their lives or something. I'm just spitballing here. Details come later.

 

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Thank goodness the hair and beard is for a new role!!!

 

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Joel Kinnaman pulls up a photo on his phone of intricately wrapped gifts, one of the perks of a worldwide press tour. His bounty from Seoul — where he’d visited after Los Angeles and before Sweden, Paris, and now New York — included locket necklaces for himself and his wife, tattoo artist Cleo Wattenström. Kinnaman, who’s on the final leg of a press tour for Netflix’s big-budget sci-fi series “Altered Carbon,” was clearly charmed by the gesture.

“I’ve adjusted pretty well to each [time zone],” says the low-key, Sweden-born actor of the temporal bouncing around. “The key is to not to go out and get f–ked up, then it’s a wrap. So if you eat good and go train, then it’s easier.”

Training has been a large part of the 38-year-old Kinnaman’s regimen and significant backbone of his preparation for his film and television roles, which have often fallen within the action genre. For the futuristic “Altered Carbon,” he trained three to five hours a day over six months to get into the role of Takeshi Kovacs.

“Really grinding out different martial arts and strength and conditioning,” says Kinnaman, dressed in a look he coined “Swedo” in style (a riff on “Guido”). “I wanted to be prepared in a way where I could do my own stunts. It was the first time that I really stepped up to that level.”

The show, which has been described as “cyber punk noir,” was adapted from the 2002 novel by Richard Morgan and draws comparisons to “Blade Runner: 2049.” Kinnaman wasn’t initially interested in doing another TV show — “I’d just come off of ‘House of Cards,’ and I was also a little hesitant doing a sci-fi show on TV,” he recalls — but was won over by the massive scale of the project.

“There were more impressive sets on [the show] than I’ve ever seen in my whole career, way beyond ‘RoboCop’ and ‘Suicide Squad,'” Kinnaman says. “We had a set that was three football fields deep, with a whole living, breathing city — like three stories of bridges going back and forth, about 450 extras in the most odd clothes walking around and construction workers. You had noodle shops with people eating, tattoo parlors and street vendors, people digging a hole in the ground. Construction workers, police officers making an arrest. And they could shoot in any direction.”

The show carries an R-rating, reflecting its cinematic ambitions, which include plenty of stunt and CGI work packed into the murder-mystery storyline. “It’s central to the story that there is violence, because part of the violence is to show that the human body is now disposable. And now because of this new technology, we have a very different relationship to bodily damage and pain,” Kinnaman offers. In the flashy-tech world of “Altered Carbon,” the individual self exists separately from the body as “cortical stacks” — which store consciousness — and can be inserted into new bodies, called “sleeves,” when the previous body dies.

As an actor, it’s a familiar notion for Kinnaman.
“There is something that is really similar to what we do. You try to make your body into this different personality,” he says. “A real easy tool to do when you’re finding a role is to change how your body is because you operate a different way in the world. I notice when I’m skinnier.…I relate to other men in a different way, and I feel a little younger and a little more ‘squirrl-y.’ And then when I’m heavier, I have a different posture. Those little differences, those are the ones that ignite the idea of what the character can be, and then you start exaggerating them and shaping them.”

The actor will next appear in the crime-thriller “Three Seconds” along with Clive Owen and Rosamund Pike, and he’s gearing up to start shooting another miniseries in Budapest. The “Suicide Squad” sequel is also hovering on the horizon.

“They’re still working on the script on that, so they haven’t set a start date yet. But I know [director and writer] Gavin O’Connor and Warner Bros. are hammering away, and so that’s still pending,” he says.

While a big-budget franchise film carries many perks, Kinnaman seems genuinely amped to step back into the body of Rick Flag.

“It’s a really good feeling. At first if there’s something that you didn’t like with your performance, then you can sort of adjust it. You also get this deepening fleeing that sort of marinated in you,” he says. “So I’m really excited to go back to the Suicide Squad. Actually, I have a bone to pick. I feel like I have a lot of thoughts on how I want [Rick Flag] to evolve. I look forward to getting into him.”

While Kinnaman jokes about looking for a role outside of the action “muscle guy” genre to get back a little credibility, he follows up with quick — and genuine — gratitude.

“I’m not complaining in any way. Honestly, I’m so thrilled that this is my life. I could never have imagined when I dropped out of high school — I didn’t imagine my life going in this way,” he says. “Of course I’m incredibly happy, but at the same time you have to keep raising the bar. And I think it’s really important to never get too comfortable. I think it’s really important to live your life 10 percent out of your comfort zone, keep challenging yourself and keep giving yourself difficult things to solve. That’s the way that you don’t stagnate.”

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At Slussen tube station...

 

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So I finished the show yesterday and I have to say it's actually better than I expected. Joel's acting is back on Swedish standard and I'm glad to see he can do lighter funnier bits too. Loved his facial expressions throughout the season. Also the running gag with the pink unicorn backpack. They've done a good job here and Joel shines in those slower, emotional scenes with his "true love". And the plot twist at the end makes it all more heartbreaking.
I really hope they do a second season (just for my regular fix) but since I'm not that familiar with the source material I don't know if that actually works.

 

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Apparently the whole cast lacks fashion taste.

 

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I've watched the first 3 episodes. I find it a bit hard to understand sometimes because Joel & James' characters seem to mumble a lot which I find frustrating...other than that...I'm enjoying it as well.

 

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At the premiere.

Is his zipper down in this photo?

Watched Altered Carbon. So gosh-darnned amazingly good.

 

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He will be again a military man ...

‘Hanna’ Amazon Series Casts Esme Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman, Mireille Enos in Lead Roles
The series adaptation of the action film “Hanna” at Amazon has found its three leads, Variety has learned.

Esme Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman, and Mireille Enos will star in the drama, which was ordered straight-to-series at Amazon last May. In addition, Sarah Adina Smith is set to direct. Her previous directing credits include the FX series “Legion,” the HBO series “Room 104,” and the film “Buster’s Mal Heart.”

The series will begin shooting in March across Hungary, Slovakia, Spain and the U.K.

Written by David Farr, who co-wrote the original film, “Hanna” follows the journey of a young girl with extraordinary skills as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

Enos plays Marissa, an efficient and ruthless agent, having risen up the ranks of the CIA. However, beneath her cool exterior is a deeply buried secret that continues to haunt her. The reappearance of Hanna and her father Erik threaten to expose the past she has worked to repress. Kinnaman plays Erik, a hardened, intuitive and uncompromising soldier and mercenary, who, for the past 15 years, has raised his daughter in the remote forests of northern Poland. Isolated from the world he once knew, he has trained Hanna in every method of survival, with his only goal, to keep her safe. But, his teenage daughter begins to seek freedom from the restricted haven he has created.

Creed-Miles takes on her first leading role as Hanna, who has lived all her life in a forest in Northern Poland until becoming the heart of an unraveling conspiracy. Hanna feels she must leave the confinement of the forest to experience life, but once in the world, Hanna is hunted by Marissa and others connected to Hanna’s hidden origins and exceptional abilities.
source: http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/han...miles-joel-kinnaman-mireille-enos-1202691947/

 

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Now I'm confused. Is he even "allowed" to go to the competitor when he's basically deep in the woods with Netflix?! Obviously I don't know how his contracts were negotiated.

And another authority figure! Really, Joel?!? There seems to be a red thread through his career which started with I skuggan av värmen where he played a police officer moved on to Johan Falk (a guy working with the police), then The Killing (a detective), then Robocop (a cop, it's in the title), then Child 44 (an officer), Suicide Squad (a soldier), Altered Carbon (another soldier), Three Seconds (another guy working with the police) and now this. Dude, you really need to change up your role profile! It gets boring. You didn't need drama school training for shooting a gun and stage fighting, a workshop would've done the trick just fine. Ugh!